Jennifer Lopez has opened up about her blended family with husband Ben Affleck and his ex-wife Jennifer Garner.
In a Vogue cover story published Tuesday
The 53-year-old singer and actor made a rare comment about Affleck’s former partner. Lopez called the 13-year-old 30-year-old star « an amazing co-parent » and said Garner and Affleck « worked really well together » in caring for their three children.
The « On the Floor » singer has also opened up about the challenges of merging families since she and Affleck tied the knot in an intimate Las Vegas wedding last July.
« The transition is a process that needs to be handled very carefully, » Lopez explained. « You have a lot of affection. They’re teenagers. But it’s going really well so far. »
Lopez revealed that she wants to create a special bond with her new stepson, while Affleck has her own bond with her teenage twins.
« What I want to foster with my family is that his kids have a new ally in me and my kids have a new ally in him, » she said. « Someone who truly loves and cares about them, but can have a different perspective, helps me see things that I don’t see in my kids because I’m so emotionally attached. »
Jennifer Lopez shares two children with ex-husband Marc Anthony
14-year-old twins Amy and Maximilian. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner now have three children together: Violet, 16, Serafina, 14, and Samuel, 10.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck rekindled their relationship in early 2021 after splitting in 2004. Shortly after splitting with Lopez, the Gone Love actor rekindled his relationship with Jennifer Garner that same year. The former couple got engaged in 2005 and married two months later. In December of the same year, they welcomed their eldest daughter, Violet.
Garner and Affleck announced their separation in 2015 and finalized their divorce three years later. In a steamy interview with Affleck in December, the Argo director revealed that he felt « trapped » in his marriage. Affleck, who entered rehab in 2018 for his alcoholism, said his marriage to Garner « is part of the reason he started drinking. »
« Our marriage didn’t work out
Happened. This is someone I love and respect, but should never be married to again, » Affleck said on an episode of The Howard Stern Show last year.
« I was like
‘I can’t go because of my baby, but I’m not happy, what should I do?’ What I did was, [I] drank a bottle of scotch, fell asleep on the couch and ended up Proof that no solution has been found, » he said.
Affleck told Stern
« We all felt we didn’t want this to be the model of marriage our kids saw. »